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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2021 —More than 20 patient and health care groups sent a letter to Congressional leadership and the Administration today making clear the need to preserve the nation’s first-ever ... to have access to it.   “Our organizations have long fought to ensure that patients have access to care to treat their serious illnesses and health conditions. Being able to take time off work is fundamentally an access to care issue, and our current patchwork system of paid and unpaid ...

... on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies Maryland & DC Lawmakers Have Opportunities to Save Lives and Money Through Improving Access to Affordable Health Coverage, Tobacco Control and Quality of Life Measures   WASHINGTON, DC – August 3, 2017 – Maryland and the District of Columbia are ... cancer prevention efforts, curb tobacco use, prioritize the quality of life for patients and their families and increase access to critical health coverage.” How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including smoke-free ... Additionally, the report offers a blueprint for how Maryland and the District of Columbia can work within the current federal health care law on approaches to improving access to affordable and adequate health coverage for cancer patients and their families. It outlines ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) held a hearing on the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018. Included in the proposal are ... pain from cancer and other serious illnesses.   Specifically, ACS CAN supports measures that would empower the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to focus on the development and approval of new, non-addictive pain treatments as well ... will continue to urge lawmakers to work toward a balanced approach that will not preclude cancer patients and survivors from accessing the pain care they need. “The proposal considered today includes several provisions that would strike that important balance of reining in abuse, while ...

... the findings showed while states have made considerable progress over the last decade in enacting policies that enhance access to pain care for patients with serious illness, this progress has slowed, and in some states reversed, in recent years. The report, Achieving Balance in ... (PPSG) prepared the report, which was jointly funded by ACS and ACS CAN. As a nation we must enact sensible policies to curb the growing public health crisis of opioid abuse, while at the same time recognizing the needs of cancer patients and survivors who have debilitating pain and must ... manager for the PPSG. "It is also important that new policies don 't impose undueξtreatmentξbarriers that affect important doctor-patient health care decision-making. The 2016 report found while there is some continued improvement in patient access to quality pain treatment, states ...